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The siege.
by Russell Braddon
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The Siege of Kut Al Amara (7 December 1915 – 29 April 1916), also known as the First Battle of Kut, was the besieging of an 8,000 strong British-Indian garrison in the town of Kut, 160 kilometres (100 mi) south of Baghdad, by the Ottoman Army. In 1915 its population was around 6,500. Following the surrender of the garrison on 29 April 1916, the survivors of the siege were marched to imprisonment at Aleppo, during which many died. Historian Christopher Catherwood has called the siege "the worst defeat of the Allies in World War I". Russell Braddon describes this siege and the aftermath in this must-read volume.
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Russell Braddon, Charles Townshend, Gerard Leachman, Baron von der Goltz, Patrick Hehir, Christopher CatherwoodPlaces
Al Kūt (Iraq), Kut Al AmaraTimes
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